it.  He buys in far greater variety, because he seeks to gratify not merely physical wants, but also mental wants.  He buys for the satisfaction of sentiment and taste, as well as of sense.  He buys silk, wool, flax, cotton; he buys all metals—­iron, silver, gold, platinum; in short he buys for all necessities and all substances.  But that is not all.  He buys a better quality of goods.  He buys richer silks, finer cottons, higher grained wools.  Now a rich silk means so much skill and care of somebody’s that has been expended upon it to make it finer and richer; and so of cotton and so of wool.  That is, the price of the finer goods runs back to the very beginning, and remunerates the workman as well as the merchant.  Now, the whole laboring community is as much interested and profited as the mere merchant, in this buying and selling of the higher grades in the greater varieties and quantities.  The law of price is the skill; and the amount of skill expended in the work is as much for the market as are the goods.  A man comes to market and says:  “I have a pair of hands,” and he obtains the lowest wages.  Another man comes and says:  “I have something more than a pair of hands; I have truth and fidelity.”  He gets a higher price.  Another man comes and says:  “I have something more; I have hands, and strength, and fidelity, and skill.”  He gets more than either of the others.

The next man comes and says:  “I have got hands, and strength, and skill, and fidelity; but my hands work more than that.  They know how to create things for the fancy, for the affections, for the moral sentiments”; and he gets more than either of the others.  The last man comes and says:  “I have all these qualities, and have them so highly that it is a peculiar genius”; and genius carries the whole market and gets the highest price. [Loud applause.] So that both the workman and the merchant are profited by having purchasers that demand quality, variety, and quantity.  Now, if this be so in the town or the city, it can only be so because it is a law.  This is the specific development of a general or universal law, and therefore we should expect to find it as true of a nation as of a city like Liverpool.  I know that it is so, and you know that it is true of all the world; and it is just as important to have customers educated, Intelligent, moral, and rich out of Liverpool as it is in Liverpool. [Applause.] They are able to buy; they want variety, they want the very best; and those are the customers you want.  That nation is the best customer that is freest, because freedom works prosperity, industry, and wealth.  Great Britain, then, aside from moral considerations, has a direct commercial and pecuniary interest in the liberty, civilization, and wealth of every nation on the globe. [Loud applause.] You also have an interest in this, because you are a moral and religious people. ["Oh, oh!” laughter and applause.] You desire it from the highest motives; and godliness is profitable in all things, having